The phrase "a flat start" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a beginning that lacks excitement, energy, or enthusiasm, often in contexts like sports, performances, or projects.
Example: "The presentation had a flat start, failing to engage the audience from the beginning."
Alternatives: "a dull beginning" or "an uninspired kickoff".
"We had a flat start last game," McLaren told reporters after the game.
The 0.2% increase in March follows a flat start to the year and is the first rise in 20 months.
For the first half, at least, it was a derby befitting a flat start to the A-League season.
"We were relentless, and we were resilient, as always," Dubinsky said after the Rangers overcame a flat start and a three-goal second-period deficit.
"Today it is still possible to leave school, sign on, find a flat, start claiming housing benefit and opt for a life on benefits," Cameron said.
Cameron referred to his latest example of Tory tough love elliptically in his conference speech, saying: "Today it is still possible to leave school, sign on, find a flat, start claiming housing benefit and opt for a life on benefits.
Next, a 15-nm-thick Si layer was grown at 520 °C (sample A), 550 °C (sample B), and 580 °C (sample C), respectively, to obtain a flat starting surface.
This training starts with a flat-start initialization of context-independent phonetic HMMs and ends with a speaker adaptive training (SAT) of state-clustered triphone HMMs with GMM output densities.
This training starts with a flat-start initialization of context-independent phonetic Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and ends with speaker adaptive training (SAT) of state-clustered triphone HMMs with Gaussian mixture model (GMM) output densities.
"We've trained on a track with a short, flat start and then a drop-off and we've done a lot of work fine-tuning that, so hopefully in the first few pushes we can really nail it," said Benson.
The crowd have picked up a bit, after a pretty flat start.
